Hi, On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 01:12, John D Taylor III wrote: > Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested. I tried opening and saving > documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent > documents is is no documents. Thanks for trying. > > John D. Taylor III
The list of the recent documents is stored now (OOo 3.1.0) in the file <Histories.xcu>. Path: <...\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Histories.xcu>. You may have a look at → Clearing Recent Document History <http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18588> Manfred > Brian Barker wrote: >> At 16:04 03/06/2009 -0400, John D Taylor III wrote: >>> >>> Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents. Is there >>> something that I am supposed to turn on? Is anyone else having this >>> trouble? I don't know when the problem started, I just know that when I >>> opened the writer this last seven or eight times there were no recent >>> documents and writer. >> >> At 16:11 03/06/2009 -0400, John D Taylor III wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, I forgot about that. I running windows XP. >> >> This information is apparently stored in one of the per-user configuration >> files. One possibility is that this file has become corrupted or lost. If >> you delete such files, OpenOffice will often create new copies for you. >> This is very much a guess, but you might like to try this: >> o Close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. >> o Rename C:\Documents and Settings\<login-name>\Application >> Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Common.xcu - >> where <login-name> is the name of the account you use. (This way, you can >> recover the file if the scheme fails.) >> o Restart OpenOffice and test. >> >> Application Data is a hidden folder, so you may have to turn on the >> display of hidden items in order to browse to and through it. >> >> I trust this helps. >> >> Brian Barker -- Adding a Dash to OpenOffice.org <http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/06/03/adding-a-dash-to-openofficeorg/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
